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More money into savings

September 24th, 2009 at 07:42 pm

My biweekly deposit into savings hit, just $25 this time. That makes September savings $780.

I've almost but not quite written a few blog entries about various things; my supervisor has been out for two weeks and my workdays have all been constant. Usually I write my posts during down time at work. These past couple weeks I haven't had any, and when I get home I just want to turn my brain off and relax to gear up for the next day's work. But she's back Monday so some of the pressure will be off me, though I've volunteered for some writing assignments that might take up most of my downtime. The more work the better in this economy.

One bit of news is that my parents offered to pay for the three of us to visit my sister in Ohio for Thanksgiving; it will be a mini-family reunion with probably all of my sisters and most of their kids and spouses coming, as well as my parents. We decided renting a car was by far the cheapest, though NT couldn't fathom (as an Englishman) a 10-hour drive in one day, so we're also getting a hotel overnight each way. Still way cheaper than airfare. Not sure where we will all stay in my sister's house; there are three sisters plus four spouses (counting my two), 6 nieces and nephews, and my parents, and that's all in addition to my sister herself, her spouse and her four kids. Guessing some last-minute hotel arrangements are in order, but I'm not going to worry till we get closer to the time of the trip. My mom is pretty good about arranging some vegan dishes, so I'm not worried about that aspect, though I will remind her (it's been awhile since I've done Thanksgiving with extended family).

I reserved the car and hotel rooms on my credit card, and I'll just let my dad know the final cost later. I can pay off the hotel rooms before they start incurring interest; there's room in our checking account balance to float that until after Thanksgiving. The car expense won't hit the card until after we return the car.

We had a whole stupid incident where our condo association fees were seemingly processed in early September, then this week we got a mysterious direct deposit for that amount, then a couple days ago we got our October bill saying we hadn't paid September and owed a late fee! I'm still straightening that nonsense out, but the good news is our condo association management company removed the late charge without hesitation, even though part of the problem might have been that I sent the payment to an old address, not realizing they'd changed the payment address. (But then why did the check get cashed? And why the sudden re-deposit of funds in the same amount? These are the questions that drive me...crazy, so I probably will stil follow up with the mgmt place's bank to try and find out.)

Hmm...There may have been more, but I've gotta run to a dental appointment!

1 Responses to “More money into savings”

  1. frugaltexan75 Says:
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    That is pretty strange about the whole condo fees situation. I'd be very annoyed.

    Sounds like you'll have a memorable Thanksgiving with lots and lots of family. Smile

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